CDROM Interstation Pn Study Along the Rio Grande Rift

The Rocky Mountain Region: An Evolving Lithosphere: Tectonics, Geochemistry, and Geophysics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 379-384

  Lastowka, Lynda A ^a,b   Sheehan, Anne F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core mantle boundary; Geology, Structural Rocky Mountains; Geophysics Rocky Mountains; Orogeny Rocky Mountains

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; LANDFORMS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; LOW VELOCITIES; RIO GRANDE RIFT; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UPPER-MANTLE VELOCITIES; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

VELOCITY;

EID: 84951203902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/154GM28     Document Type: Chapter

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